Steven Pressfield

But I stop when I start making mistakes.

When I start...

having typos and things like that, then it's kind of like a workout at the gym.

You know, when you've reached the end, you know, I'm just going to hurt myself if I do another set, you know, um, point of diminishing returns.

So when I get tired, I stop and I don't question it at all.

I don't say, I don't make myself feel bad about, Oh, you can get another 10 minutes.

Um, like Steinbeck used to say that, um,

pressing forward at the end of a long day to get just a little bit more is the falsest kind of economy because you pay for it the next day.

Hemingway used to say he always stopped when he knew what was coming next in the story, which I also believe in that too because that will help you in that hairy first moment when you're sitting down because at least you know, oh, okay, this is what's going to happen.

Yeah, exactly.

No.

Let's just interrupt for a second.

They call it resistance training, which is exactly what we're talking about for art.

Yeah.

But please continue.

No.

But like we were talking about, if an idea comes to me, then I grab my phone and I dictate that.

And let me say one thing here for anybody that's listening to this and would want to be writers, aspiring writers.

So I'm a full time writer.

I don't have another job.